Homicide is the major leagues, the center ring, the show. It always has been. . . It goes … - David Simon

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Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.

David Simon

Homicide is the major leagues, the center ring, the show. It always has been. . . It goes beyond academic degrees, specialized training or book learning, because all the theory in the world means nothing if you can't read the street.

Book, League, Leagues, Learning, Mean, Show

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The best I can hope for is that I might provoke a water cooler argument between you and somebody else. But it is not journalism. It doesn't have the rigor of journalism. It doesn't have the proof positive that facts provide. So it can be readily dismissed as mere propaganda. But I can certainly reach more people.

Dismissed, Might, People, Readily, Somebody, Water

Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution. And yet with more than 80 percent of Americans living in metropolitan areas, there are still demagogues who want to run down the idea of multiculturalism, of urbanity, being the only future we have. We either live or die based on how we live in cities, and our society is either going to be great or not based on how we perform as creatures of the city.

America, Cities, Demagogues, Idea, Lost, Running

With more than 80 percent of Americans living in metropolitan areas, there are still demagogues who want to run down the idea of multiculturalism, of urbanity, being the only future we have. We either live or die based on how we live in cities, and our society is either going to be great or not based on how we perform as creatures of the city.

Cities, Creatures, Down, Ideas, Metropolitan, Running

In Baltimore they can't do police work to save their lives. Now because of Freddie Gray they're not even getting out of the car and policing corners - they're on a job slowdown, basically. Right now if the police stopped being brutal, if we got police shooting under control, and the use of excessive force, if we have a meaningful societal response to all that stuff, and the racism that underlies it, the question still remains: what are they policing, and why?

Car, Control, Job, Meaningful, Racism, Under

Unless you loosen the hold that your past has on you, your future will unfold in much the same way. . . it is time to begin writing a new script that accurately reflects the beautiful, powerful, and worthy being you are.

Beautiful, Begin, Future, Hold, Powerful, Writing

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If your outer life is really a reflection of the quality of your inner life, then it's a brilliant move to spend at least an hour a day working on yourself.

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Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.

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I usually know when I take the picture. There's always some kind of un-self-conscious thing going on, so that it doesn't look like they're there for the sake of having their portrait taken.

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